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Google is executing their business plan of trying to 100% own the web. Recent aquisitions are positioned to own the underlying top 10 search results in every c

by aresant 17y ago

Google is executing their business plan of trying to 100% own the web. Recent aquisitions are positioned to own the underlying top 10 search results in every category they can get their hands on. I'm glad that yelp, top of the list for many local searches, is holding out. And yes, I know they've got a pile of cash and they should use it to improve margins in underlying biz, but still this just seems like a continued march to monopoly.

neohacks 17y ago
I like the quality of acquistions Google makes or tries to make. I guess their success rate is much better than others.
axod 17y ago
I very much doubt they want to own 100% of the web. Only the profitable bits that fit with their ongoing strategies. Yelp obviously ties into a lot of the good stuff they're doing, OTOH yelp is pretty unheard of outside the US afaik.
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- pyre 17y ago
  I see that you retracted your original statement, but I'll comment on it nonetheless. Before trying to counter someone's views with "troubling links to Marxist ideology," I think that you should try Googling "McCarthyism" instead of "Capitalism."
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  - anamax 17y ago
    Ah yes, some actual communists were threatened and some innocents got caught up in the whole thing. Meanwhile, communists were killing real people by the thousands. Yup, McCarthyism was the big problem. Which reminds me, if "the list" was wrong then, is its complement wrong today?
    - pyre 17y ago
      No offense, but I doubt that McCarthy found any communists. He may have found some Communist-sympathizers, but that's hardly the same crime that you're talking about (killing real people by the thousands). Name me one Communist that McCarthy took off the street that would have murdered thousands of people. McCarthy used Communism as an excuse to attack people's political leanings. If you think that people that have Socialist/Communist political leanings are in favor mass murder, then you have a really distorted view of reality. Do you really think that when the Beatles wrote "Back in the USSR" that they were condoning mass murder and a 'report your neighbor to the secret police' culture? Most people have those political leanings because they believe in the 'hope' that humanity will work together to solve their problems (join hands and sing "Kumbaya" or something). Whether or not their beliefs are reasonable or even possible is irrelevant. You don't throw someone in prison or ruin their life just because they have impossible dreams. > Meanwhile, communists were killing real people by the thousands. > Yup, McCarthyism was the big problem. I challenge you to find me one instance where McCarthyism 'saved the day.' Even if you are able to find one instance, I challenge you to weight that against the number of people that were jailed/lives ruined over this. McCarthyism wasn't a way to "save us from the evils of Communism," it was a modern-day witch-hunt that one man started to earn political brownie points. If you see McCarthy as an altruist, then I have a bridge to sell you... Let's not also forget that Communism in the forms that we have seen in implemented in real life is far from "Marxist ideology."
      - anamax 17y ago
        > If you think that people that have Socialist/Communist political leanings are in favor mass murder They may not say that they favor mass murder, but they do it whenever they get the chance. > Whether or not their beliefs are reasonable or even possible is irrelevant. You don't throw someone in prison or ruin their life just because they have impossible dreams. Nice sentiment, but you're defending folks who kill political opponents and attacking someone who didn't even jail folks. And, you still haven't addressed the "conservative blacklist" that Hollywood has today. You're rather selective in your outrage over "ruined lives". > [McCartyism] was a modern-day witch-hunt that No it wasn't. There aren't witches, but there were communists and, according to the USSR's records from the time, McCarthy was basically correct. > Let's not also forget that Communism in the forms that we have seen in implemented in real life is far from "Marxist ideology." That simply doesn't matter at this point. Millions of dead folks is too much risk to take, again. Of course, if you actually pay attention to communists and Marxists, they always let "break a few eggs" slip. They try to hide it, but they're fundamentally authoritarians with a nasty thought-control streak. Animal Farm was the nice face.

by aresant 17y ago

neohacks 17y ago

I like the quality of acquistions Google makes or tries to make. I guess their success rate is much better than others.

axod 17y ago

I very much doubt they want to own 100% of the web. Only the profitable bits that fit with their ongoing strategies. Yelp obviously ties into a lot of the good stuff they're doing, OTOH yelp is pretty unheard of outside the US afaik.

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pyre 17y ago
I see that you retracted your original statement, but I'll comment on it nonetheless. Before trying to counter someone's views with "troubling links to Marxist ideology," I think that you should try Googling "McCarthyism" instead of "Capitalism."
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- anamax 17y ago
  Ah yes, some actual communists were threatened and some innocents got caught up in the whole thing. Meanwhile, communists were killing real people by the thousands. Yup, McCarthyism was the big problem. Which reminds me, if "the list" was wrong then, is its complement wrong today?
  - pyre 17y ago
    No offense, but I doubt that McCarthy found any communists. He may have found some Communist-sympathizers, but that's hardly the same crime that you're talking about (killing real people by the thousands). Name me one Communist that McCarthy took off the street that would have murdered thousands of people. McCarthy used Communism as an excuse to attack people's political leanings. If you think that people that have Socialist/Communist political leanings are in favor mass murder, then you have a really distorted view of reality. Do you really think that when the Beatles wrote "Back in the USSR" that they were condoning mass murder and a 'report your neighbor to the secret police' culture? Most people have those political leanings because they believe in the 'hope' that humanity will work together to solve their problems (join hands and sing "Kumbaya" or something). Whether or not their beliefs are reasonable or even possible is irrelevant. You don't throw someone in prison or ruin their life just because they have impossible dreams. > Meanwhile, communists were killing real people by the thousands. > Yup, McCarthyism was the big problem. I challenge you to find me one instance where McCarthyism 'saved the day.' Even if you are able to find one instance, I challenge you to weight that against the number of people that were jailed/lives ruined over this. McCarthyism wasn't a way to "save us from the evils of Communism," it was a modern-day witch-hunt that one man started to earn political brownie points. If you see McCarthy as an altruist, then I have a bridge to sell you... Let's not also forget that Communism in the forms that we have seen in implemented in real life is far from "Marxist ideology."
    - anamax 17y ago
      > If you think that people that have Socialist/Communist political leanings are in favor mass murder They may not say that they favor mass murder, but they do it whenever they get the chance. > Whether or not their beliefs are reasonable or even possible is irrelevant. You don't throw someone in prison or ruin their life just because they have impossible dreams. Nice sentiment, but you're defending folks who kill political opponents and attacking someone who didn't even jail folks. And, you still haven't addressed the "conservative blacklist" that Hollywood has today. You're rather selective in your outrage over "ruined lives". > [McCartyism] was a modern-day witch-hunt that No it wasn't. There aren't witches, but there were communists and, according to the USSR's records from the time, McCarthy was basically correct. > Let's not also forget that Communism in the forms that we have seen in implemented in real life is far from "Marxist ideology." That simply doesn't matter at this point. Millions of dead folks is too much risk to take, again. Of course, if you actually pay attention to communists and Marxists, they always let "break a few eggs" slip. They try to hide it, but they're fundamentally authoritarians with a nasty thought-control streak. Animal Farm was the nice face.